On Di, 09.05.23 09:20, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > == Summary == > > > > This change will increase the minimum size of the ESP to be 500MB, > > which is also the same value used by Microsoft for Windows 10 and > > newer. > > This is both too much and not enough. Essentially, this grows the ESP, > but also leaves the XBOOTLDR partition large. Overall, the users pays > twice, and on some systems 1.5GB is not insignificant. OTOH, 500 or > 512 MB seems not enough: three big UKIs and a rescue kernel and and > some Windows blobs and a firmware update would likely overflow. > > If we want to change the default here, let's do some proper cleanup: > 1. the split between ESP and XBOOTLDR is only useful in the case where > ESP already existed and was small. If the installer is *creating* > an ESP, it should just make it large enough. > 2. having a second partition with a second (different) file system > implementation just increases the footprint and attack surface for > no gain. If we create XBOOTLDR, make it like the ESP (i.e. VFAT > in almost all realistic scenarios). > 3. if there are bootloaders that don't read one or the other partition > as they should, fix them. > > Then we can make the ESP 1 GB *and* save space compared to current > defaults. > > (Point 2. is not really *necessary* for the size changes, but it'd be > nice to get rid of this anachronism if this area is being touched.) I guess this might not be surprising, but this proposal makes a ton of sense to me and has my full support, FWTW Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
